Here they are again. The top two picks of the 2016 draft are destined for parallel paths, and they’d been scheduled to meet for a second time when the Rams play Philadelphia at the Coliseum on Sunday night.

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Will they? According to a report from NFL Network, Wentz “is not expected” to play Sunday because of a back problem. Eagles coach Doug Pederson said only that Wentz would miss Wednesday’s practice, and declined to elaborate about the severity of Wentz’s pain, or whether he might play against the Rams.

“We’re going to gather more information and then we’ll have something further,” Pederson said in a Wednesday-morning conference call with Los Angeles reporters.

By every measure, the loss of Wentz would be significant. He’s the engine for an Eagles offense that hasn’t run the ball well this season and has averaged 7 fewer points per game than last season. Then, of course, it would prevent the much-anticipated rematch between draft-mates Goff and Wentz.

“I was looking forward to it,” Goff said after Wednesday’s walk-through practice at Cal Lutheran, “and unfortunately I don’t know if it will happen, but I wish him the best.”

A year ago, when the teams met at the Coliseum, Wentz suffered a major knee injury in the fourth quarter. The Eagles turned to Nick Foles, the former St. Louis Rams quarterback, and not only beat the Rams 43-35 but also continued on to win the first Super Bowl in franchise history.

Wentz recovered and returned early this season, but the Eagles have stumbled to a 6-7 record and are battling for the NFC’s second and final wild-card spot. Foles might again have to be their late-season guy.

“We have all the confidence in the world in Nick and we’re excited to play with him,” tight end Zach Ertz told reporters in Philadelphia after Wednesday’s practice.

Foles is still around, but hasn’t taken a snap in a game since Sept. 16. His star-crossed career has included an initial rise with the Eagles (2012-14), then a bumpy 16-month run with the Rams, who benched him in favor of Case Keenum, then released him in July 2016 after they drafted Goff.

So, it’s another full-circle moment, and Foles isn’t the only quarterback with something to prove.

Goff, reasonably touted as a MVP candidate for most of this season, has been poor in consecutive games, last Sunday’s loss to Chicago and the previous week’s victory over Detroit.

In those two games, Goff had a 48.1 completion percentage and averaged 5.0 yards per attempt. In his first 11 games, Goff had a 67.7 completion percentage and 9.3 yards per attempt. Goff had only six interceptions in his first 381 attempts this season, but now has five interceptions in his last 77 attempts.

Since the end of the Chicago game, Coach Sean McVay consistently has blamed himself for play-calling miscues, but Goff also has been self-critical.

“There’s a lot of things to work on, and that’s pretty much weekly,” Goff said. “There’s a bunch of things. (The Bears) did a good job defensively and were able to stop us in different ways. We looked at the film and watched it and they did a lot of good things.”

Now there’s a chance for redemption. With 66 more yards, Goff will exceed 4,000 passing yards for the first time in his three-year career. In last year’s game against the Eagles, Goff was efficient but not prolific, as he completed 16 of 26 attempts for 199 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions.

In his two seasons playing under McVay, Goff has yet to go consecutive games without a touchdown, or consecutive games with multiple interceptions.

“The best part about Jared is, he does a great job of learning from it,” McVay said. “He doesn’t let it affect his ability to move forward. I thought his demeanor throughout the game, as frustrating as the other night was, was exactly what we love about him. He was even-keel, wasn’t frustrated at all. He knows that he can play better and that everybody can do a little better.”

The Rams have signed offensive lineman Jamil Demby from Detroit’s practice squad and promoted linebacker Trevon Young from their practice squad. Those two players will replace running back Malcolm Brown and defensive back Dominique Hatfield, both of whom were placed on injured reserve. The Rams drafted Demby in the sixth round this year, then lost him to Detroit off waivers in September.

McVay said Demby’s addition was not a reflection of the health of other linemen. Rodger Saffold and John Sullivan both left last Sunday’s game for brief times. The Rams held only a walk-through practice Wednesday at Cal Lutheran, per recent custom.

OVERSEAS AGAIN

The NFL announced, as expected, that the Rams will host one of the five international games in 2019, in either Mexico City or London. The Rams will be in their final season at the Coliseum before their move to Inglewood in 2020, and the NFL mandates international games for teams playing in temporary stadiums.

The Rams widely are expected to get the Mexico City game. They were scheduled to play there last month against Kansas City, but that game got moved to the Coliseum because of poor field conditions.

Rich Hammond was a high school senior when the Rams left town in 1995, and now he's their beat writer for the Southern California News Group. A native of L.A., Rich broke in at the Daily Breeze as a college freshman and also has covered USC, the Kings, the Lakers and the Dodgers. He still loves sports and telling stories. Don't take the sarcastic tweets too seriously.